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Trustwave, AirTight tie-up

To provide solutions for identification & remediation of wireless threats

EH Staff - New Delhi

Wireless intrusion prevention provider AirTight Networks and provider of IT security and compliance management solutions Trustwave have announced a partnership to provide businesses with access to powerful and accurate services for the identification and remediation of wireless security threats. The payment card industry data security standard (PCI DSS) is the industry security requirement for entities that process, transmit or store cardholder data and requires any organisation accepting credit card payments to comply with 12 core network and data security requirements.

Trustwave validates compliance with the PCI DSS and the partnership is an extension of its solutions to help businesses re-mediate wireless security threats after those vulnerabilities are discovered. Robert J McCullen, its chairman and CEO, says, "Our goal is to help the industry conduct business safely and efficiently in a networked world. As the trusted security advisor for our customers we recognise the new threat vectors that wireless introduces to the enterprise in general and to the retail environment specifically."

David King, chairman and CEO of AirTight, said, "Compliance has become more than a sound business practice, it is a requirement and wireless has added vulnerabilities to the network. The enterprise needs to be compliant and also secure. This partnership enables customers of both companies to make compliance understandable and attainable."

In the changing scenario and because of the myriad industry standards and regulatory statutes, today's businesses are faced with increasingly complex compliance requirements that ultimately govern how they protect critical information. The PCI standard now includes seven key requirements specifically aimed at wireless compliance. With the proliferation of wireless and the increasing use of unauthorised devices by employees, the necessity of understanding the wireless environment becomes an important element in an overall compliance and security posture.